Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin - And a Dinosaur
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Recently, YouTube has been ramping up its anti-adblock effort, and I’ve been watching this closely due to personal interest. This blog post is where I write down what I know. Some Background Here’s...

Really interesting read about the history of YouTube adblocking, how the new detection works, how uBO is responding, and how not to block the new popups.

  • joel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    127·
    8 months ago

    Has anybody else not seen an ad yet? I’m wondering if it’s because I’m using Enhancer for youtube which also has an adblocking function 🤔

    • tias@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      361·
      8 months ago

      Did you not read the article?

      YouTube isn’t rolling out the anti-adblock to everyone. It seems to depend on things like your account, browser, and IP address. And if you’re not logged in or you’re in a private window, you’re safe. As a result, there are a bunch of people saying, “I use XYZ and I haven’t seen an anti-adblock popup yet,” unknowingly spreading misinformation.

    • anothermember@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      I haven’t yet but I presume that’s because I don’t have an account - which according to the article they’re targeting people by account.

    • Banzai51@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      For a day I got the no video but audio playing ads.

      On my Shield where I don’t have uBlock Origin, I get bombarded with ads.

    • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      With uBlock Origin I’m not getting anything, but the Ghostery plugin with “adblocking enabled” set to on actually now returns a blank youtube site. As soon as I switch it off (so blocking trackers only) it works perfectly fine and with zero ads.